It gets better. There may be up to two and a half thousand Marines stationed in Australia, And The USAF could end up having shared air space over
certain military bases. I'm glad that we'll have all these marines around to protect us from the 'space debris'.

Oh i forgot to mention the radar can monitor missile and satellite launches from China. How convenient!

That's not good if the US is focussing their attentions on this side of the world. Next thing you know they'll be creating some false flag event in
Aussie and then invading, war on terror (blahblah), take the country over and declare Martial Law - about sums up their modus operandi (hidden
agenda).

Hopefully some onto it Aussie's go and destroy the radar machines or satellite dishes, like 3 of our Kiwi blokes did a few years back over here in
New Zealand. Now those 3 blokes should be recognized as heroes, not charged with destroying property as they were. The 'system' does not like
being stopped or interfered with.

We can teach those marines how to fight properly. Send them up against some drop bears and crocks. WE do like the sailors, they spend heaps.

It all happened because our red headed twit fell all over herself when that Barrak guy came a'callin. She was just like a 15 year old school girlie.
Come to think of it, will she ever grow up? Well, she is a bit embarrassing, still, we don't take polies too seriously down here. With what we are
given to choose from how could we.

it seems odd that they would also move one from New Mexico for the same purpose ...why have two ??

Mr Smith, the Defence Minister, says the two countries have been discussing space issues at the AUSMIN meetings for several years. He says the radar
"will add considerably to surveillance of space debris in our part of the world". "We'll set that up in the north west of WA at our Exmouth
facility," he said. "We're also in discussions about the possibility of transferring from New Mexico to Australia a space surveillance telescope
for use for the same purpose." The C-band is currently in Antigua at a US Air Force facility.

That's not good if the US is focussing their attentions on this side of the world. Next thing you know they'll be creating some false flag event in
Aussie and then invading, war on terror (blahblah), take the country over and declare Martial Law - about sums up their modus operandi (hidden
agenda).

You put one in the Northern Hemisphere, and one in the Southern. That way you can monitor a lot more in space than if you just have one. And you put
a telescope in Australia because there is so little light down there at night. Once you're out of the major metropolitan areas, it's almost pitch
black on the light pollution maps. Perfect for a telescope.

Since we have a manned outpost up there now. Have you seen how much space debris there is in orbit? It really is going to end up looking like in
Wall-E at the rate we're going. In 2009, there were 19,000 pieces of debris in orbit, from centimeter size, up to extremely large. Those were only
the tracked pieces. It's estimated that there are currently 600,000 pieces of debris larger than 1cm in orbit.

Fan-f*****-tastic!, I joked the other day when Hillary Clinton was to arrived in Perth that we were about to be invaded by US/NATO forces, in the same
vein as Lybia, Iraq et al. I do want to see Colin Barnett assassinated but not by the seppos, hes our problem and we should have the responsibility of
dragging his decapitated corpse down Sterling Hwy.

No, the SST is a three mirror optical system with a wide field view. It's a very impressive telescope that can search an area the size of the US
every few seconds.

DARPA’s ground-based Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) may soon head to Australia. An agreement reached this week with Australia’s Department
of Defense will allow DARPA to take the 180,000 lb. three-mirror Mersenne-Schmidt telescope to Australia to track and catalogues space debris and
objects unique to the space above that region of the world that could threaten DoD satellites. In the joint agreement, the U.S. and Australia have
decided to work towards the establishment of the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) on Australian soil.

SST was developed to detect and track previously unseen small objects at the deep space altitudes associated with geosynchronous orbits (roughly
22,000 miles high). Begun in 2002, SST achieved many technical firsts and advances. Able to search an area in space the size of the United States in
seconds, SST uses the first large curved charge coupled device focal array. It currently possesses the steepest primary mirror ever polished allowing
the telescope to have the fastest optics of this aperture class. The system is capable of detecting a small laser pointer on top of New York City’s
Empire State Building from a distance equal to Miami, Florida. These features combine to provide orders of magnitude improvements in field of view and
scanning for deep space surveillance.

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